Jack Bauer to Hunt Mission Impossible 4 with 24 Movie

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Tom Cruise will return in M:I4 and Jack Bauer will get his 24 big screen debut.

Hollywood is going into espionage overdrive as Keifer Sutherland and Tom Cruise will go head to head with 24 and Mission: Impossible 4 both given the green light this week.

Both movies are slated for a 2011 release, although Jack Bauer’s big screen debut could be pushed back for another year if Twentieth Century Fox decide to press ahead with a ninth season of 24.

With official ratings for the current season of 24 due out this week, Fox have held back on a decision to commission another series. However, with more terrorist plots to be foiled by Sutherland’s grizzled hero, another season seems inevitable, delaying initial filming and production on a 24 movie.

In a much less gritty fashion, Tom Cruise has been stopping international terrorism for over a decade now since taking up the mantle of super-spy Ethan Hunt in the first Mission: Impossible movie in 1996. The franchise has grossed over $1.4 billion worldwide, or two-thirds of an Avatar as box office takings must now be referred to.

With such a bankable pitch, and both Tom Cruise and JJ Abrams signed onto the project, Mission: Impossible 4 was a no-brainer for Paramount Studios. Abrams, who directed the third Mission: Impossible movie and fresh from the success of Star Trek is a steady hand to make M:I4 a big hit.

“Tom and J.J. are great talents and we are excited to be working with them to re-launch this legendary franchise,” Chairman of Paramount Pictures Brad Grey revealed in a press statement yesterday.